Save and restore Form position and DataGridView's configuration

Hi,

As you said you could try saving the locations and other properties to a .ini file. You could simply use the basic textfile classes available on .net to create the .ini file. You could save it on your unload and read it on your load event. If you want it to be hidden to the users eye. THen you could store it in the registry....
cheers,

Paul June A. Domag

Thanks for your help.

Because my application need to save and restore width, order of columns in DataGridView so i created a array to save this information. But client configuration just support single value, therefore i'm very difficult to solve my solution.

Please tell me more detail about my solution.
Thanks.

I'm doing the same thing and using the simple

IsolatedStorageFile

class. It's a hidden file saved for each user on each machine, it's a simple xml file so I think an array can easely be saved.

Use a dataset. It should have 3 columns, Form, Field, and value. When your application starts up, it should load the dataset into a shared object. Then in your form's show event, it reads the appropriate values. When it closes, it updates the appropriate values back to the dataset. Finally when the app closes, it writes the dataset to disk.
I use a variant of this using a database in one of my apps today. All of my show, close code is in a base class form, so all of its children get the behavior for "free."
(I'm borrowing this behavior from code that an ex-coworker had in a PowerBuilder app a decade ago.)

Mike